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    Welcome to the Brown University student chapter of Engineers without Borders. EWB-Brown is a chapter of EWB-USA (www.ewb-usa.org ) since May 2006.

    We are a group of students and faculty dedicated to using engineering for social and environmental good. To that end, EWB-Brown facilitates working relationships with other groups and communities, in Providence and beyond, to pursue opportunities for socially conscious and environmentally sustainable design.

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    Why? Because out of the 6.5 billion people that live on Earth:

·  over 3 billion people have inadequate access to clean water and sanitation

·  6000 people, mostly children, die each year due to drinking of unsafe water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene

·  over 80% live in poverty

·  over a third die each year from famine

·  one-third have no electricity

...and sometimes all it takes to help a community is a small amount of materials and some people with a social conscience.